Iwan Baan | Arquitectura Viva

While architectural photography is typically known to showcase isolated buildings and pristine environments, the work of Iwan Baan (Alkmaar, Netherlands, 1975) goes beyond this approach of reproducing artificially perfected environments. The book Momentum of Light is a collaborative publishing project that graphically documents the photographer’s travels in the company of architect Francis Kéré (2022 Pritzker Prize laureate) across Burkina Faso, Kéré’s homeland, just over two years ago. Through a personal visual research, Iwan Baan documents how the stark quality of light impacts buildings and conditions everyday life in this Sub-Saharan region…[+]

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